| Heading: |
Pigs: Animal Housing |
| Question ID: |
1810775 |
| UIN: |
58480 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5239 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Sarah Gibson
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Sarah Gibson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent estimate his Department has made of the proportion of sows in the UK kept in farrowing crates in each of the last five years. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4382 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Daniel Zeichner
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| Answering Member handle: |
danielzeichner
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@danielzeichner
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| Answer text: |
Defra does not hold official data, however, for the last five years estimates have consistently maintained that 60% of the UK breeding herd were kept indoors with the vast majority of sows using farrowing crates to give birth. The remaining 40% farrow fre... |
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| Answering body ID: |
13 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
| Tweeted: |
true |